# Top 30 Artificial intelligence Angel Investors in Ireland in June 2026

## Paddy Flynn
- Type: Angel
- Location: Dublin, Dublin, Ireland
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Angel
- Focus: SaaS, Machine Learning, Video

Paddy Flynn - VP, Geo Data Operations @ Google

## Dan Kiely
- Type: Angel
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Seed, Series A
- Focus: Software, Human Resources, Machine Learning

Dan Kiely is CEO and Co-Founder of Voxpro, a premium provider of high end outsourcing services exclusively to the disruptive technology market. Dan thrives in the entrepreneurial realm. He dreams big & encourages innovation in all aspects of his company. Dan is a man of passion and creativity. Find the limit and he will smash it. Voxpro’svision has always been driven by Dan’s desire to create something unique, something unforgettable. With its 2,000+ strong work force across multiple locations in Ireland, the U.S., Romania and shortly, the Philippines, Voxpro touches the lives of hundreds of thousands of people every year, all over the world. Voxpro has a rapidly expanding geographic footprint and well considered location roll-out plan. A growing partner list includes some of the most powerful technology companies in the world. Voxpro’s partners are of great inspiration to Dan. He resonates with their entrepreneurial spirit and they, with his. Dan’s tenure at the helm continues to steer Voxpro on an exciting and successful journey. Audacious and relentless, his dreams for the company know no bounds.

## Mike McGearty
- Type: Angel
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Seed, Series A
- Focus: SaaS, Big Data, Transportation

CEO at
CarTrawler

## Rob Hickey
- Type: Angel
- Location: Boston, Massachusetts, United States
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed
- Focus: Medical, Software, Biotechnology

Rob Hickey is Vice President of Engineering at Azuki Systems, responsible for product design and development. Rob brings more than 20 years of proven management and engineer experience in the areas of video distribution, signal processing and content-aware networking to the role.Most recently, Rob worked at Cisco Systems and was a member of theCisco New England Development Center Leadership Team. His responsibilities included leading the Multi-Protocol Label Switching (MPLS) Application development organization where he led the design and development of Label Switched Multicast for Cisco’s edge routing platforms. This technology is a key component of Cisco’s video distribution architecture. Prior to his current role, Rob managed a development and QA team responsible for the design and development of next generation security and content switching platforms. Prior to Cisco, Rob was a founding engineer at ArrowPoint Communications, which was acquired by Cisco in May 2000. ArrowPoint was a leader in the content networking space and pioneered the L4-L7 intelligent load balancer. At ArrowPoint, Rob held various roles in hardware and software development as well as QA.Before joining ArrowPoint, Rob held various engineering positions at Bay Networks and Raytheon Company.Rob received his BSEE from Northeastern University and completed the Global Leadership and Business Leadership Development Programs while at Cisco.

## Gerry Devitt
- Type: Angel
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed
- Focus: Software, Analytics, Machine Learning

Gerry Devitt is a Managing Director at Harvest Financial Services

## George Kilpatrick
- Type: Angel
- Relevant deals: 1
- Focus: SaaS, Video, Collaboration

I was once photographed by David Bailey! I also bring to work our therapy dog, Woody, for the Fareham team’s good mental health. And Woody’s lunch.

## Chris Adelsbach
- Type: Angel
- Location: London, England, United Kingdom
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- Focus: FinTech, Financial Services, Software

Chris Adelsbach - Founding Partner @ Outrun Ventures

## Barry Lunn
- Type: Angel
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Angel
- Focus: Sensor, Software, Aerospace

Barry Lunn, the founder and CEO of Provizio (previously founder and CEO of Arralis) takes a design led approach to tech entrepreneurship. Barry’s approach to solving difficult technology problems is as much artistic as it is actual physics.

## Nicolas Berggruen
- Type: Angel
- Location: Los Angeles, California, United States
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Series A, Series B
- Focus: Software, Machine Learning, Artificial Intelligence

Nicolas Berggruen is the Founder and Chairman of the Berggruen Institute. He attended New York University.

## Stuart Coulson
- Type: Angel
- Location: Palo Alto, California, United States
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Angel
- Focus: SaaS, Software, CRM

Stuart Coulson is the Co-Founder and Director of Social Entrepreneurship Lab and Extreme Design Lab at Stanford University and a Lecturer at the Graduate School of Business, where he leads the Design for Extreme Affordability program. Student teams develop products and services to tackle poverty in the developing world. Projects and startupsemerging from the program have affected the lives of more than 100 million people so far.Stuart is an investor in and advisor to early stage technology and social impact organizations in Silicon Valley and Ireland. He is a member of the Trinity College Dublin Provost’s Council and sits on the board of Trinity’s Innovation and Entrepreneurship Hub. He also grows old-vine Zinfandel grapes and enjoys regularly quality testing the resulting award winning wines.Stuart’s background is in software development, data communications and travel reservations systems. His previous roles include senior leadership in some of the world’s largest travel technology companies and several startups. He co-founded Gradient Solutions, a pioneer in web-based travel e-commerce, acquired by Sabre.Stuart holds a BA (Mod.) in Computer Science from Trinity College Dublin, an MBA from the University of Geneva and an EMBA from the Tepper Business School, Carnegie Mellon University.Previously, Stuart co-founded Gradient Solutions. Gradient developed on-line travel booking engines for customers such as Austrian Airlines, Delta, KLM, Northwest Airlines, Thomas Cook and Virgin Travelstore. As Technology Director and Joint CEO, Stuart was responsible for technical strategy, product architecture, product development, customer solutions and hosting operations, as well as sharing the responsibility for general management. Gradient was acquired by Sabre.

## David Shackleton
- Type: Angel
- Location: Dublin, Dublin, Ireland
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Angel
- Focus: SaaS, Video, Internet

David Shackleton is the Product Head at OpenBack Integration of Twitter. Took up The Role and Responsibilities of Company Directors at Institute of Directors in Ireland.

## Charlie Songhurst
- Type: Angel
- Location: Greater Seattle Area, Washington, United States
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed
- Focus: Software, Information Technology, Artificial Intelligence

Charles Songhurst  is a founding partner of Katana Capital, a long-short equity hedge fund. He also runs the Songhurst Group, which holds assets in a variety of private companies.Charles ran corporate strategy for Microsoft and focused on partnering and M&A. He was involved in the Yahoo acquisition and commercial deal, and the Skypeacquisition. Before running corporate strategy, Charles was focused on the emergence of Google and the growth of the search industry.Prior, Charles was an analyst at McKinsey & Company in London. Charles received a bachelor’s degree from Oxford University in politics, philosophy, and economics.

## Conor Stanley
- Type: Angel
- Location: Dublin, Dublin, Ireland
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Series A
- Focus: Software, SaaS, Analytics

Founder / Partner at Tribal.vc. We are a venture firm that empowers entrepreneurs on their own unique path to success. We invest early and with conviction, using our experience and networks to help guide founders and their teams as needed.

## Tadhg O'Toole
- Type: Angel
- Location: Raleigh, North Carolina, United States
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Angel
- Focus: Apps, SaaS, Travel

Founder & CEO of LIKECHARITY.

## Tom Kelly
- Type: Angel
- Location: San Francisco, California, United States
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Angel, Pre-Seed
- Focus: Software, Human Resources, SaaS

Tom Kelly founded Iona Capital Advisors after a fifteen-year career with some of the leading global investment banks such as Merrill Lynch, Bank of America, Robertson Stephens and Blackstone.  Tom has extensive experience raising private capital for clients and has worked on over 100 transactions amounting to over $5 billion in transaction value.He is exclusively focused on advising and assisting companies in accessing the private capital markets.Prior to founding Iona, Tom was a Managing Director and Head of the Global Private Capital Advisory Group at Blackstone Advisory Partners where he was responsible for advising Blackstone's clients on raising capital in the private capital markets. Prior to joining Blackstone, he ran the private capital advisory group at Montgomery & Co. and ran the west coast private placement group for Bank of America. He began his investment banking career with Merrill Lynch in London and New York before transferring to San Francisco in 1999 to launch Merrill Lynch's Silicon Valley private placement practice.Tom has fifteen years of experience providing strategic advisory and capital-raising services to corporate clients. He has extensive experience in negotiating, structuring and executing transactions on behalf of companies in a variety of sectors including technology, media, healthcare, real estate and financial services. He has assisted both private and public companies in raising capital from venture capital firms, financial sponsors, hedge funds, sovereign wealth funds, mutual funds and strategic investors. He is also an active angel investor and secondary market participant.Tom obtained his MBA from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology where he was the recipient of a John F. Kennedy Scholarship and a Fellowship from the Royal Academy of Engineering. He previously obtained a First Class Honors Degree in Pharmacy from the University of Bradford, United Kingdom and worked as a research scientist with Pfizer and a production manager with Baxter Healthcare and Weleda prior to getting his MBA.Tom was born and raised in Ireland and remains very connected to the Irish entrepreneurial community. He participated in the Global Irish Economic Forum of October 2011 at the invitation of the Irish Government and  was named to the Irish Technology Leadership Group's "Silicon Valley 50" in 2011 and 2012.

## Bryan Meehan
- Type: Angel
- Location: San Francisco, California, United States
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Angel, Series A
- Focus: Biotechnology, Sustainability, Farming

Bryan Meehan is the Co-Founder of NUDE Skincare.

## Mark Whittaker
- Type: Angel
- Location: London, England, United Kingdom
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed
- Focus: B2B, B2C, Software

Mark Whittaker joined Parkwalk Advisors as Corporate Advisor in 2012.

## Bobby Hambrick
- Type: Angel
- Location: Morton, Illinois, United States
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed
- Focus: Sensor, Software, Automotive

Bobby Hambrick

## Sean Mullaney
- Type: Angel
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed
- Focus: Software, Web Apps, Cloud Security

Sean Mullaney is a Chief Technology of Algolia.

## Ronan Harris
- Type: Angel
- Location: London, England, United Kingdom
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Angel
- Focus: SaaS, Software, Analytics

Ronan Harris is the President of EMEA at Snap.
He previously worked as the Managing Director for Google across the UK and Ireland.
Harris has been based in Dublin, in charge of the sales teams for large customers across EMEA.
He has been at Google for more than 11 years, joining as senior director for large customer sales for EMEA.

## Ali Partovi
- Type: Angel
- Location: San Francisco, California, United States
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
- Focus: Software, Artificial Intelligence, Financial Services

Ali Partovi is the CEO and Founder of Neo. He previously worked at Dropbox as an Advisor. Ali Partovi attended Harvard University.

## Daniel Stefanic
- Type: Angel
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Pre-Seed, Seed, Equity Crowdfunding
- Focus: Software, Information Technology, Artificial Intelligence

Dan spent over 18 years leading go-to-market strategies at IBM, Lenovo, Symantec, Atlassian, and Easy Agile.He has been involved in private equity and angel investing since 2018. This experience culminated in the founding of the Atlassian Alumni Angel Syndicate - Atlumni.Mr. Stefanic received a Bachelor of Commerce in Marketing & E-Commerceat the University of Wollongong and a Graduate Diploma in Management from Macquarie Graduate School of Management (MGSM). He lives in Croatia.

## Anne Herarty
- Type: Angel
- Location: Dublin, Dublin, Ireland
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Angel, Pre-Seed
- Focus: SaaS, Energy, Internet

Anne Heraty is the Chairperson of Sherry FitzGerald. Previously she was the CEO and Co-Founder at Cpl Solutions. Anne Heraty attended University College Dublin.

## Simon Murdoch
- Type: Angel
- Location: London, England, United Kingdom
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Series A, Seed
- Focus: E-Commerce, Software, Finance

Simon set up online bookstore Bookpages in 1996 and sold it to Amazon in 1998. As VP Europe for Amazon, he managed huge growth from start-up through to multimillion turnover and hundreds of staff. As an Angel investor, he has invested in Shazam, been chairman of VideoIsland (now merged with and renamed LoveFilm, and purchased in Feb 2011 byAmazon.com), Zoopla!  and Shutl (currently chairman).Simon founded and funded FriendsAbroad.com, a social network for developing language skills and contacts abroad which was successfully sold to Lesson Nine GmbH, operators of language learning site Babbel.com. Simon is currently CEO of StormForward, an e-commerce conversion consultancy which helpsonline retailers to increase their online salesand profits.

## Liam Casey
- Type: Angel
- Location: San Francisco, California, United States
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed, Angel
- Focus: Software, E-Commerce, Information Technology

Liam is the founder and CEO of PCH.

## Mike Stalley
- Type: Angel
- Location: Dublin, Dublin, Ireland
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed
- Focus: Apps, Financial Services, Artificial Intelligence

Mike Stalley Currently works as the Independent Non-Executive Director for Allied World Assurance Company (Europe) DAC.

## Vincent Nolan
- Type: Angel
- Location: London, England, United Kingdom
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Series A
- Focus: Internet, Analytics, E-Commerce

Vincent Nolan is the Executive Chairman at 2CV. Vincent Nolan attended The University of Sheffield.

## Anil Kokaram
- Type: Angel
- Relevant deals: 1
- Focus: SaaS, Video, Collaboration

Anil Kokaram

## Sean Mitchell
- Type: Angel
- Location: Dublin, Dublin, Ireland
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Series A
- Focus: Toys, Internet, Analytics

Sean Mitchell is the Chairman and Chief Commercial Officer at Ubotica Technologies.

## Linda Kiely
- Type: Angel
- Location: Metropolitan, Michigan, United States
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Series A
- Focus: SaaS, Software, Analytics

Linda Kiely is an Entrepreneur at Linda Green-Kiely Enterprises.

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